Chris Murdock is a veteran of the recruiting and talent acquisition industry with twenty years of experience spanning across multiple industries. Murdock founded IQTalent Partners in 2009 and now leads search execution and client relationships for his 150- person firm. Prior to establishing IQTalent Partners as a talent acquisition leader, Murdock worked with Yahoo!’s internal executive recruiting team, gaining in-depth experience across the technology recruiting sphere. He began his career working in recruiting and sourcing roles for Heidrick & Struggles and with TMP Worldwide. Murdock earned his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and resides in Nashville, TN.

Connecting Talent - Mofota Sefali is a Human Resources Practitioner with a blended knowledge of HR; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Talent Acquisition Management as well as Employer Branding and Employee Value Proposition.

Enthusiastic and outgoing, she is an innovator who is continuously aware of new possibilities with a penchant for discovering different but effective ways of doing things. She gains motivation from the ability to not only generate but implement ideas. A visionary with a positive mindset which often carries others with her. Forever interested in seeing the possibilities, particularly in people, within and beyond the present moment.

Her key strengths lie in consulting with business to understand how HR activities can contribute to business strategy execution. Mofota holds the belief that healthy organisation culture is a competitive game changer, and strives to help shape companies to attract and retain the best people to meet their mission and grow their vision.

As an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager with a documented history of working in HR across various industries in South Africa, as well as other countries on the continent including Kenya and Nigeria, she believes that Africa has incredible talent, and is excited to play a role in unleashing the best in people across the corporate world.

Simply put...

she loves what she does.

 

Mr. Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra, Mechanical Engineering Graduate and Post-Graduate Diploma in Management joined Indian Oil in 1987 and has since worked on varied assignments, including Terminal Operations, Supply Chain Management and Logistics, Indian Oil’s overseas establishment among others. Currently, in the Board of Indian Oil Corporation as Director (Human Resources), he is leading the organization with a human touch  and aligning various HR initiatives with Strategic Corporate Vision. He is also Chairman of Lanka IOC, Indian Oil’s subsidiary in Sri Lanka, which is into retailing, terminalling and bunkering operations in the island nation. As Managing Director of Indian Oil (Mauritius) Ltd, the Company’s overseas subsidiary, during 2012-2015, Mr. Mohapatra led a team of young professionals, registering sizeable growth in market share and profitability. He was also the first Chairman of Mer Rouge Oil Storage Terminal, a joint venture formed by four MNCs to set up modern oil storage facilities in Mauritius. Mr Ranjan has pioneered many HR policies in sports promotion, CSR, Skill-development, e-learning, ‘HR Facilitator’ etc.  A firm believer in the power of possibilities and strengths of HR, he has always strived for the betterment of stakeholders.

John Jersin leads the Talent Solutions and Careers product team at LinkedIn, which helps connect millions of people with career opportunities. Through artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, John has lead the team to deliver next generation tools to make finding jobs and sourcing candidates simpler and more efficient. John joined LinkedIn via the acquisition of Connectifier, where he was founder and CEO and built a company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in hiring, ultimately worth nine figures. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from UC San Diego and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.